Feb

11

ZineWiki is back!

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ZineWiki returns! After a nearly year-long absence, ZineWiki.com, the open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media, is back online.

Two long-time zine publishers and librarians have recently taken over administration of the wiki. Jerianne Thompson (of Murfreesboro, TN) is the editor and publisher of Zine World: A Reader’s Guide to the Underground Press, the nation’s largest zine review zine. Dan Halligan (of Seattle, WA) is the former publisher of music zine 10 Things and co-founder of the alternative publication Tablet, which covered culture in the Pacific Northwest. Both have been publishing zines since the 1990s. Thompson works in a public library; Halligan manages an academic library. Assisting the duo is Thompson’s partner, Denny Crawford, who revived ZineWiki after it was taken off-line by a hacker’s attack.

“ZineWiki was growing into such an amazing resource, Dan and I felt it was vital to get the site back online,” Thompson said. “The very nature of zines make them hard to document. No one can really say how many zines have existed or how many are currently being published. ZineWiki gives us a way to document the breadth of zine publishing.”

ZineWiki features more than 2,300 articles about zines, publishers, and many other aspects of the small press. It was originally created in June 2006 by Alan Lastufka and Kate Sandler to document the vibrant underground publishing world. In its first year and a half, hundreds of contributors wrote articles covering the history, production, and distribution of the small press worldwide. Thompson and Halligan plan to continue the project where it left off.

“While we’ve seen a rapid decline in print publishing internationally, the independent press and zine publishing community continues to remain quite active. And as the mainstream media continues to merge and consolidate, it’s even more important to highlight and recognize independent voices and publications, which is exactly what ZineWiki aims to do,” Halligan said.

If you had an account on ZineWiki before, your account will still work. If you don’t have one, please sign up. Log in, make edits, add content. Please help us spread the word. See you at ZineWiki!


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